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An American Genocide

Western expansion. This expansion was regarded by White Americans as Manifest Destiny, while Native Americans viewed it, and right...

Precontact Law and Government in Native America

contends that these rules included such considerations as individual rights, provisions for private property, and even adjudicatio...

Local Government and Casino Tax Revenue Regarding Native Americans

the boundaries of their federal reservations without being regulated by state or local law. There have been several tests...

Canadian Aboriginal Schools as Cultural Genocide

system, the rationale for establishing the system was unabashedly one of assimilation. Nicholas F. Davin, who proposed the system ...

Thomas King/Medicine River and Canadian Literature

the bearer of Native Canadian culture. For example, the novel opens with Harlen inviting Will to lunch at 10 a.m. and talking abou...

Status of American Education

of the many areas of education that has suffered due to overburdening public schools (Croddy 30). In a research study that involve...

American Revolution and Cultural Interactions

its many treasures. Not only were their cultures tremendous varied, so too were the various regions that they called home and the...

1786's Fort Finney Treaty

take place at the fort (2005). The Shawnees did not accept the land which was set aside by the Fort McIntosh agreement ("Treaty...

The Evolution of the Americas

has been noted, the question of precisely when Native Americans arrived in the Americas is surrounded more by speculation than it ...

King Philip's War by Jill Lepore

In five pages this historical text by Jill Lepore is analyzed in a consideration of how American identity was shaped by that long ...

The Poor Treatment of the American History

for the Native Americans and they did this without a thought to their natural human rights. American historical facts supports thi...

America's Sexism and Racism History

In an essay consisting of five pages the historical origins of sexism and racism in the Americas is traced through the Native Amer...

U.S. History, Native Americans, and Immigrants

In eight pages this paper examines American history with an emphasis upon the significant role of immigrants, struggles of the Nat...

Roughing It with Swan, Twain and the Indians

Northwest Coast by James G. Swain and Mark Twain's Roughing It are two novels which deal with the outdoors and the American west. ...

Franklin, Emerson and Whitman

means, in turn, there "are no Prisons, no Officers to compel Obedience, or inflict Punishment. Hence they generally study Oratory,...

Colonialism

This essay/research paper, first of all, defines colonialism and discusses how it can be differentiated from imperialism. Then, t...

Northwest China's Unique Hui Muslim Culture

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares the Chinese Hui Muslims with the US Native American and African American cultures...

The Louisiana Native Guards by James G. Hollandsworth

As such there is not a great deal written on the African American experience and the story of the Louisiana Native Guards is one t...

The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815

additional examples could be presented as well. The most interesting of Dowds examples concern the leadership strategies of the t...

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by Mary Rowlandson

come about. At the same time, the authors depiction of the Indians is less than kind and while that is true, one can say that her ...

White Values versus Values of Native Americans

include any consideration of an alternate opinion to their worldview. They fully expected the Native Americans to accept that it w...

The Accuracy of American History Books

faced. Foner explains that by the time the Savannah Colloquy would come around, slavery was already an institution3. He explains t...

Metacom of the Wampanoag: Changing Perceptions Over Time

predominant mindset of manifest destiny that set the stage for the many abhorrent actions that were yet to unfold in Native/White ...

Native Americans and Their Socioeconomic and Political Roles

that "all these houses have very large and very good rooms and also very pleasant gardens of various sorts of flowers both on the ...

Social Concerns in Latin American Colonial Times

remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not onl...

Turquoise and its Mystique

In eight pages this paper discusses the historical allure of turquoise in this consideration of Native American art and the Americ...

Colonialism and the New Testament

Puritans saw themselves a turning away from a thousand years of established religious teaching so that the "truth" of the New Test...

Southwest U.S. and Assimilation Pressures Placed Upon Hispanics and Native Americans

historic plight of Hispanics and Native Americans in the Southwest. Even today, in fact, these cultures are too often penalized f...

Languages of Native Americans and Their Importance in Cultural Relativity and Promoting Diversity

languages are a significant cultural resource, a cultural resource which is too often overlooked by mainstream America. He emphas...

Film Adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans

accusations, which effectively illustrates the films irony. Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe and Steven Waddington play th...